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thedon16
New Member
10 years ago
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Sharing Reports

I want to publish a report I made on my desktop and share it with a colleague.  This is a report, not a dashboard.   It seems absurdly unintuitive to do this.    Is it possible in the free versio...
  • Bjoern's avatar
    Bjoern
    10 years ago

    Anonymous Erm - I would have proposed to publish the report to his own PBI account, create a PBI group, then either a) create content pack and import report into group or b) upload PowerBI file into group.

     

    Did you exclude that on purpose or did I miss sth here? :o

     

    // Was he referring to the desktop app only? 

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Anonymous
Not applicable
8 years ago

To share, you and the receiving user now must have a Pro license for this to work. Alternatively, your organization can lease a premium node and share with any users, even ones with no Power BI.

 

Jon

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mikelimas
Regular Visitor
8 years ago

Is there any way for a Pro BI License user to share reports/dashboards to Free BI users internally to the organization?  Content would not be suitable for entire web sharing that I see is available.  

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    8 years ago

    If you have the right SQL Server License, you can publish Power BI content to Report Server. It requires a slightly different Power BI desktop version. Of course, now you're paying for a server and a SQL server license. Not sure if any CALs are needed.

     

    While you can use a Power BI Web Part in SharePoint Online and maybe later in SharePoint Internal, they still need a Pro license to view it. Once you get more than 250 Pro licenses issued, you should seriously consider leasing a Premium Node. That lease also entitles you to an on-premise Report Server, so the license cost is covered.

     

    Talk to your account rep.

     

    Jon